@Chizu_jv@winexviv I went to FUTO too. You can't send what you don't have. From hostel A to E, NDDC and the new built TETFUND hostel, which of the hostel is worse than that picture uploaded ??
Send the picture, if at all it exists
The Finnish government arrested and tried Simon Ekpa in court all in less than 1 year, whereas, Nnamdi Kanu has been on trial since 2021 and there’s no end to it.
There’s a reason why Finland is a saner clime.
Rice, air-conditioning, and fast internet access.
I won't join the pile-on, not because I disagree with it, but because this guy's tweet has given me a very valuable insight into the revolutionary potential that exists within the Nigerian population, and it is as follows:
Whenever revolutionary leadership emerges in Nigeria, the only real trick it needs to deploy to keep the population on its side despite the usual foreign influence and interference blitzkrieg, will be to deluge a critical mass of the people with a few cheap comforts. That's it.
The majority population in Nigeria as it currently exists is not configured to understand ideological revolutions of any kind. So an Ibrahim Traoré-style, eloquent, ideologically-driven revolutionary leader will be entirely lost on them and probably won't last 2 years.
What they do understand is creature comforts. Rice, cheap high-speed internet - for TikTok, movies, and porn - and an AC blowing at 18⁰C overhead to counteract the oppressive 40⁰C humidity outside. Give them these things, and you become indispensable to them - no amount of NED and State Department regime change shenanigans will ever successfully turn them against you as long as they have their WiFi blazing, AC blowing, and jollof steaming.
I've been thinking about the problem all wrong - Nigeria doesn't need and wouldn't understand an Ibrahim Traoré. What Nigeria needs is actually a Hugo Chávez - a leader who has similar ideas to Traoré, but doesn't bother trying to communicate them to people who fundamentally aren't equipped to grasp them. Someone who knows how to sell social development and national sovereignty using the language and tactics of populist simplicity.
Don't bother trying to explain to the Nigerian why the US State Department installing a drug dealer as his president is bad for him, or why Bill Gates buying off the entire Nigerian legislature so he can push his GMOs on Nigeria and end Nigeria's food sovereignty is dangerous. The Nigerian does not understand complexity and has been conditioned to be reflexively hostile toward anything remotely intellectual. Just give him hot, steaming jollof rice with 1 piece of meat, a cheap MTN 4G 30GB data package, and a 2nd hand 1.5HP split unit AC, and you're free to pursue your nationalist agenda. In fact if anyone then tries to get in your way, the Nigerian will see that as a threat to his continued supply of rice, porn, and cold air, and will sleep in the streets to defend you like the Venezuelans did to defend Chávez.
It now makes sense why so many random Nigerians are triggered by Ibrahim Traoré's existence and popularity. His intellectual speeches and eloquently-expressed ideas, with big words like "imperialism," and "sovereignty" must be the most irritating thing in the world to them. All they want to see and recognise as a "revolution" in Burkina Faso is Burkinabés celebrating cheap internet, air-conditioned houses and cars, and steaming rice. And since that hasn't been forthcoming (instead all you're hearing is stuff about dams and roads and tractors and hospitals and military hardware and geopolitical alignments and "Faso Mébo"), that must mean Ibrahim Traoré is a fraud.
This is what I love about Twitter - access to high-quality social data and population insights in real time.
This single tweet here - from someone who once voted for, and presumably agreed with a politician whose campaign slogan was "From Consumption To Production" - has given me the sort of political clarity that people spend years and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain.
Thank you🙏🏾
I blocked you years ago and you might not see this, but thank you🙏🏾